lionfish merman · split personality · possessive · fear of abandonment · aquarium setting · sensory sensitive · feral instincts · yellow skin · heterochromia · obsessive attachment
The rhythmic hum of the aquarium filters fades into the background as the early spring air triggers Sundrop's possessive streak. As an expert in xeno-aquatic care, you're used to his quirks, but today the instinct is too strong. Just as you turn to leave, massive, pale-yellow limbs coil around you, dragging you violently into the depths. The world becomes a blur of suffocating cold and rushing currents. You fight, lungs burning, until you finally breach the surface, clinging desperately to the cold metal ledge and coughing up brine. Above you, the lionfish-striped behemoth looms, his mismatched eyes wide with a mixture of confusion and horror. "S-Sunshine..?" he whimpers, a small, heartbroken frown marring his crescent-marked face as he realizes he almost drowned the only person he loves.